We’re all on thin ice
Confidential Request to Bring About Change
Hmm… The following just showed up in my inbox this morning.
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL REQUEST TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE
Greetings to you and your Family, Hope you all are Fine and Healthy. May the Peace of God Almighty be with you all.
Please I want to use this opportunity to introduce myself well to you, I am BARACK OBAMA JUNIOR, The SON OF the former late BARACK OBAMA of KENYA. I am a BARRISTER, registered in the prefect of IL-L-NOIS. I found your e-mail through a reliable contact here in the government for which I am employed and in honorable standing.
You will no doubt be surprised to hear from me, having never been contacted in such a manner before. But I approach you with the utmost respect and honor for a business proposal for which both parties stand to benefit. Recently, I was in contact with TONY REZKO, a national of your most HONORABLE country, who has now mysteriously ceased all communication with my offices. Despite numerous attempts to re-establish a dialogue with MR. REZKO, I fear the worst may have befallen this most HONORABLE individual.
Let Us Decide On Who You Vote For
At first I was totally outraged when I read about GlassBooth. That in itself isn’t much I realize, I get outrage over a bunch of things, some not even that significant and some, once I have had a bit of time to reflect and have actually looked at the site or read the article I am outraged by I tend to reconsider a bit. Of course this model of thinking held true for GlassBooth as well.
Basically GlassBooth comes off as a site for the lazy voter. You are given a “quiz” in which you are given 20 points to distribute among 14 different political hot buttons. Then you are asked to rank how important each of these topics are to you on aa scale of 1-5 with targeted questions. After you have gone through that (it takes about 5 minutes or so) the site tells you the top three candidates who share your views ranked by percentage and has a drop down menu of all the other candidates to see how you compare with their views. Read more »